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Zero-to-IPO

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Here is a book that is extremely useful, creative, fun and informative. It will give you a real insight on what it is like to start a high tech company in Silicon Valley.
It puts what I know from years of experience into a visual road map for the inexperienced. If you buy it, it will be your road map on what to do and expect.

Richard H Kraus
H&K Venture Partners

Learning how to reach an IPO is a dream, every entrepreneur would like to get to the top, not all them arrive. Dave Smith explains in an easy and understandable way, how building a company becomes a journey, some time with pleasure some time with pain, in any condition you always reach an end. From Zero to IPO is a reading material to know in advance how the roadmap for this journey is. You must read this material before you start the journey, then you will be aware of the different situations that you can face, potential dangerous situations can be avoided.

I am helping tenths of companies to reach their dream, this book has been an excellent reading to our companies in the TechBA portfolio to easy their journey

Whether you are an energized brainiac out to invent the millenium's next greatest thing, or a staid businessman wanting to monetize a new opportunity, David Smith's "Zero-to-IPO" book is your source of knowledge to make you successful. From the arcane to the mundane, this book guides you with alternative entrepreneurial paths. It is at once captivating, with exciting real-world examples, and detailed with a treasure trove of technical and financial minutiae. A must-read for budding and experienced entrepreneurs alike.

I've worked in several dozen Silicon Valley startups and I'm currently the co-founder and director of a startup. David's book is an excellent explanation of the startup-to-IPO process, incl. all the possible traps and problems. He explains many things that VCs will never tell you. If you're doing a startup, you must have this book.

David's insight into the issues related to starting a high tech business is profound. His experience and real life examples make this complex process easy to understand and appreciate. I have personally worked with David and find his ability to verbalize the strengths for a startup is extraordinary. His book reflects the same abilities.

I love this book. This book is easy to read but very informative. Reading this book will save the typical entrepreneurs hundred of mistakes and thousands of dollars.